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SFSS Gr 5 Ecosystem
5th Grade Ecosystem Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| An imported or nonnative organism | Exotic |
| Shows how consumers in an ecosystem are connected to one another according to what they eat | Food Chain |
| A community and its physical environment | Ecosystem |
| The role each population in its habitat | Niche |
| Organisms of the same kind living in the same environment | Population |
| A place in an ecosystem where a population lives | Habitat |
| All the population of organisms living together in an environment | Community |
| An organism that makes its own food | Producers |
| Consumers that break down the tissues of dead organisms | Decomposers |
| Shows the relationships between many food chains within a single ecosystem | Food Web |
| An organism in a community that must eat to get the energy it needs | Consumers |
| When the last individual of a population dies | Extinct |
| The contest among organisms for the limited resources of an ecosystem | Competition |
| A population that begins to decline | Threatened |
| A population that is likely to die out unless steps are taken to save it | Endangered |
| A non-living item in an ecosystem, i.e. air, water, etc. | Abiotic |
| A living organism in an ecosystem | Biotic |
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